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Monday, January 3, 2011

What's the Point of Coffee?

Welcome to my new coffee series: Adjusting the Grind.

Adjusting the Grind's goal is to provide the everyday person with tips and tools to better understand coffee.

I hope to provide both education on its history and give fun brewing tips from a Barista's perspective. I will always be open for questions and topic suggestions, so please, feel free to suggest, comment, ask, and voice your opinion. I do not claim to be an expert by any means, but I do love coffee and working as a Barista on a daily basis.

7 comments:

I absolutely love coffee. And to me it is the mixture of a lot of things. I love the taste and the caffiene ain't so bad, although I think i have become immune because i drink so much. I like that i can sit in star bucks with a nice cup of Jo and just sit and write. I like that it brings people together and it's part of my schedule.

There are certain times a day that are coffee times. Friday is coffee with mom...

I completely agree with you Beth!! So many of my good memories and good conversations involve a cup of coffee. And I think it is a uniting factor. You can walk into a coffeeshop and have absolutely nothing else in common with someone, but the fact that you both enjoy coffee gives you a common base with each other.

I know that personally, the minute when I sit down and breathe in over a great cup of coffee, for a few seconds everything disappears from my mind except how wonderful that moment is.And always, coffee is best with friends :)

My husband and two-year-old do not drink coffee, so for me, coffee represents ME. I have a cup in the morning while I read; it is my time, my coffee, my space. It represents comfort for me. Each morning my daughter asks, "Mama, you makin' coffee? Can I snell?"

At first, it wasn't about coffee for me. It was more the atmosphere, the social interaction, and the cool music & memories from coffee shops. I liked being by myself or with friends. It doesn't matter. Back then, Coffee was a pivotal point of my life, my first year in college, having many freedoms, the shops and baristas were there through the good and the bad. Coffee has also given me some pretty cool aspirations; in my opinion, a whole lot better than not doing anything productive with my time. I'm looking into how I can work as a Barista. I had received enough money in Coffee Ethic credit for Christmas to buy some pour-over hardware and my family has been really supportive (why wouldn't they? I keep making them coffee XD).